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Escape from a Net addiction center

Posted on 2009-09-11 by Joel Martinsen

A BioHazard parody that skewers Yang Yongxin’s Internet Addiction Treatment Center.

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The stigmatization of Internet Addiction Disorder: searching for a definition

Posted on 2009-09-02 by Alice Xin Liu

News reports on August 28 highlight the possibility than an official definition for Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) will be released in the first half of next year. Star media blogger and PKU professor Hu Yong wrote a blog post in July expressing a liberal disdain for the current recognition of what IAD stands for.

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Chang Ping on how “Internet addiction disorder” is a joke

Posted on 2009-07-27 by Alice Xin Liu

On July 16 Chang Ping (also known as Zhang Ping), who used to be the deputy editor of the Southern Metropolis Weekly wrote an opinion piece in Southern Metropolis Daily questioning whether “internet addiction” could even be seen as an illness. Furthermore, he expresses the idea that some organizations have taken Ivan Goldberg’s original joke too far.

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